Cash-register.



vNo. 705,6!9. Patented July 29, I902. E. 8. SMITH &. C. A. SUSSTRUNG.

CASH REGISTER.

(Apphcation filed May 16, 1902.

(No Model.) 1 3 Sheets-Skeet I;

WTNESSES: INYENTOHS ElmemSZSma/v ATTORN EY No. 705,619. Patented m 29, i902.

E. s. SMITH & c. A. SUSSTBUNG.

CASH REGISTER.

(Application filed my 16, 1902. 1 (No Model.) 3 Sheets-Shea 2 wig-.5.

WITNESSES: I INYENTORS Elmemifimzt/t A ATTORNEY N0. 705,6I9. Patented July 29, 1902.

E. s. smTn'sL c. A. sussmoue.

CASH REGISTER.

(Ayplicutiou filed May 16, 1902.}

(No Model.) 3 Sheets-$11M 3.

ATTORNEY ma Mumps PETERS co mom-mum WASHmGTONgB. c

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELMER S. SMITH, OF BOUNDBROOK, AND CARL ALBERT SUSSTRONG, OF SOUTH BOUNDBROOK, NEIV JERSEY, ASSIGNORS TO IDEAL CASH REG- ISTER COMPANY, OF NEYV BOUNDBROOK, NEIV JERSEY, A CORPORA- TION OF NEW JERSEY.

CASH-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No."705,619, dated July 29, 1902.

Application filed May 16, 1902. Serial No. 107,571. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ELMER S. SMITH, a resident of Boundbrook, and OARL ALBERT SUSSTRONG, a resident of South Boundbrook, Somerset county, New Jersey, citizens of the United States, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Registers, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in cash-registers; and it consists in the novel features, structure, and combinations of parts hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The invention made the suhj ect of the pres ent application embodies certain improvements, hereinafter pointed out, upon the cashregister made the subject of Letters Patent No. 677,896, granted July 9, 1901, and No. 690,472, granted January 7, 1902. The cashregister shown in the drawings forming a part of this application in certain parts corresponds substantially with features of the register shown and described in said Letters Patent. No. 677,896 and No. 690,472, and said parts are therefore only incidentallyreferred to hereinafter, having been shown in this application merely for the purpose of clearly illustrating the operation of the features made the special subject of the present application.

The cash-register illustrated in the accom panying drawings embodies a series of eX- posed actuating or setting levers to be moved along columns of numerals on the front face of the register-casing for the purpose of setting certain interior segments into proper operative relation to the register mechanism an exposed operating crank or handle to be thereafter operated for placing the gears of the registering-wheels into engagement with the said segments and then effecting the movement of the said segments to their normal position, whereby said segments are caused to operate the registering mechanism; indicating-cylinders carried by a vertically-movable frame and which are turned while in their lower position by racks connected with said setting-levers; means operable by said crank or handle for elevating said frame to said cylinders to descend to their lower or concealed position preparatory to being turned in accordance with the amount of a further sale. The present invention comprises a novel means for tripping the support from the said frame carrying the indicatingcylinders, so that said cylinders on the movement of any one of said setting-levers may descend to their concealed position, the object of the invention being to simplify and render more certain, efficient, and durable that feature of the register to which the invention pertains.

The invention will be fully understood from the detailed description hereinafter presented, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section, partly broken away, through a cash-register embodying the invention, said section being taken partly on the'dotted line 1 1 of Fig. 3 and partly on a central line through the frame supporting the indicating-cylinders. Fig. 2 is an enlarged end view, partly broken away and partly in section, of the interior mechanism of the register, this View being taken from the lefthand end of the register; and Fig 3 is an enlarged front View, partly broken away and partly in section, of the lefthand portion of the interior mechanism of the register.

The features shown in the drawings of this application and requiring no detailed description, because of having been fully disclosed in the aforesaid patents, Nos. 677,896, of July 9, 1901, and 690,472, of January 7, 1902, are the exterior casing 10, the drivingshaft 11, the operating-crank 12, secured on the right-hand end of said shaft, the segments 13, loosely mounted on said shaft, the registering-wheel shaft 14, carrying the registering-wheels 15, whose gears at the proper time engage said segments and are rotated by them, the actuating or setting levers 16, the toothed bars 17, carried by said levers, the pivoted dogs 18 for engaging said bars 17, the slidable locking-rod 9 to bind said dogs against said bars 17 for locking said levers 16 except when the crank or handle 12 is in its initial position, the indicating-cylinders 19, mounted on the shaft 20 and having the gearwheels 21, the vertical rack-bars 22, con nected with rear extensions of said levers 16 and engaging the gear-wheels 21 for rotating said indicating-cylinders on the movement of said lovers, the vertically-movable frame 23, carrying the said shaft 20 and said indicatingcylinders and having the vertical member or bar 24, provided at its lower end with the foot 25 and at its upper portion with the aperture 26, the arm 27, extending rearwardly from the driving-shaft 11 and to be moved upward against said foot 25 for elevating the frame 23 and indicating-cylinders 19 to their upper or exposure position, (shown in Fig. 1,) and the pawl-arm 28, whose upper end is adapted to enter the said aperture 26 when the frame 23 is in its upper position and sup port said frame until tripped or removed therefrom by the means comprising the present invention on the movement of any one of the hand-setting levers 16.

The special devices comprising the present invention are the lower front rock-shaft 29, having the series of upwardly and inwardly extending arms 30 and provided at its lefthand end with the crank-arm 31, the crankarm 32 extending downwardly from the lefthand end of the rear rock-shaft 33, carrying the aforesaid pawl 28, and the rod 3%, connecting the crank-arms 31 32 and pivotally secured thereto.

The front and rear rock-shafts 29 are journaled at their ends in the usual end plates supporting the interior mechanism of the register, and motion is communicated through the arms 39 to the rock-shaft 29 and thence through the crank-arm 31, connectingrod 34., and crank-arm 32 to the rock-shaft 33 for turning the pawl-arm 28 outward from the aperture 26 of the frame 23, and thereby allowing said frame, with the indicating-cylinders 19, to descend to their lower position. The arms 30 are all rigid with the shaft 29, and hence the movement of any one of said arms is sufficient to turn the shaft 29 and shaft 33. The arms 30 correspond in number with the setting-levers 16 and receive their movement to trip the pawl-arm 28 from the frame 23 from said levers or any one of them. The movement of a lever 16 carries its toothed bar 17 against the cooperating dog 18, and the outward movement of the dogs 18 will act through the arms 30 to turn the rock-shaft 29 and trip the pawl-arm 28 from the frame 23. The upper ends of the arms 30 are preferably provided with adjustable bearingscrews 35 to contact with the dogs 18, these screws 35 being desirable as a means of compensating for any irregularity in the alinement of said arms 30 with each other or in the adjoining surfaces of the dogs 18 and arms 30 or in the mounting of the shaft 29 or other part to be affected by the action of the arms 30. The rock-shaft 33 is also at its left-hand end provided with a rigid arm 36, which is connected by a spring 37 with an arm 38, secured upon the rock-shaft 39 and connected to move with the plate 40, which is adapted to be moved in one direction by the spring 41 and in the other direction by the cam l2 on the driving-shaft 11. The action of the cam 42, plate 40, spring ail, and rock-shaft 39, which features are not claimed herein, is to effect the elevation and depression of the shaft 1% and registering-wheels 15 from and toward the segments 13 for purposes well understood,and in the present instance we utilize the plate as a convenient means for carrying the arm 38, whose movement toward the front, which takes place when the shaft 14 is lowered, places the spring 37 under tension and through said spring and arm 36 turns the shaft 33 and pawl-arm 28 inward, the arm 28 being thus placed under a yielding tension, which enables its upper end to spring into the aperture 26 of the frame 23 as soon as said frame ascends sufficiently for said aperture 2G to receive said upper end of the arm 28. The indicating-cylinders and their frame 23 are thus held in their upper position by the pawl-arm 28 when the latter is moved into engagement with said frame by the spring 37, and the tripping of said arm 28 from said frame to allow it to descend may be accomplished by the movement of any one of the setting-levers 16, acting through an arm 30 to turn the shafts 29 and 33. The arms 30 bear against the dogs 18 at all times when the frame 23 is in its upper position with the upper end of the pawl-arm 28 in the aperture 26 of said frame; but when the frame 23 descends the upper deflected end of said frame will press the pawl 28 in a rearward direction, and this will result in the arms 30 being turned frontward, slightly free of said dogs 18.

We do not confine the invention in every instance to the employment of the toothed bars 17 and locking-dogs 18, since they represent simply convenient means already in the register improved by us for communicating motion from the setting-levers 16 to the crank-arms 30.

l/Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cash-register comprising the indicating-cylinders, a movable frame whose position governs the concealment or exposure of said cylinders, and the series of setting-levers 16,. the rock-shaft 33 carrying the pawlarm 28 for engaging said frame and supporting it in one of its positions, the rock-shaft 29 having the crank-arms 30 corresponding in number with said levers, means connecting said shafts 29, 33, for communicating motion from one to the other thereof, and means for effecting the engagement of said pawlarm 28 with said frame, combined With means for actuating said crank-arms 30 from said setting-levers upon the movement of the latter for removing said pawl-arm from said frame and allowing the latter to move to its other position; substantially as set forth,

2. In a cash-register comprising the indicating-oylinders,a movable frame Whose position governs the concealment or exposure of said cylinders, and series of setting-levers 16, the rock-shaft 33 carrying the pawl-arm 28 for engaging said frame and supporting it in one of its positions, the rock-shaft 29 having the crank-arms 30 corresponding in number with said levers, the crank-arm 31 on said shaft 29, the crank-arm 32 on said shaft 33, the rod 34 connecting said crank-arms 31, 32,

for communicating motion from one of said rock-shafts to the other thereof, and means for effecting the engagement of said pawlarm 28 with said frame, combined with means for actuating said crank-arms 30 from said setting-levers upon the movement of the lat ter for removing said pawl-arm from said frame and allowing the latter to move to its other position; substantially as set forth.

3. In a cash-register comprising the Vertically-movable frame carrying the indicating- 3 5 cylinders 19, series of setting-levers 16 having the toothed bars 17, and series of lockingdogs 18 engaging said bars 17, the rock-shaft 33 carrying the pawl-arm 23 for engaging said frame and supporting it in its upper position, the rock-shaft 29 having the crankarms 30 in position to be acted upon by said dogs when the latter are moved by said bars 17, and means connecting said shafts 29, 33, for communicating motion from oneto the other thereof, combined with means for effecting the engagement of said pawl-arm 28 with said frame, the movement of said crankarms 30 under the action of said dogs serving to trip said pawl-arm from said frame for allowing the indicating-cylinders to descend to their concealed position; substantially as set forth.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 14th day of May, A. D, 1902.

ELMER S. SMITH. CARL ALBERT SUSSTRONG.

Witnesses:

Guns. 0. GILL, ARTHUR MARION. 

